Sura Al-A’raf (Arabic: سورة الأعراف‎, Sūratu al-A’rāf, “The Heights”) is the seventh chapter of the Qur’an, with 206 verses. It is a Meccan sura. Its final verse, verse 206, requires a sajdah, or prostration. The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɒˈrɑːn/ kor-AHN; Arabic: القرآن‎ al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn],[variations]literally meaning “the recitation”), also transliterated Qur’an, Koran, Alcoran, Qur’ān, Coran,Kuran, and al-Qur’ān, is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God[1] (Arabic: الله‎, Allah). It is regarded widely as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language.[2][3][4][5][6] The Quran is divided into 114 suras of unequal length which are classified either as Meccan or Medinan depending upon their place and time of revelation.[7] Muslims believe the Quran to be verbally revealed through angel Jibrīl (Gabriel) from God toMuhammad gradually over a period of approximately 23 years beginning in 610 CE, when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632 CE, the year of his death.[1][8][9] Muslims further believe that the Qur’an was precisely memorized, recited and exactly written down by Muhammad’s companions (Sahaba) after each revelation was dictated by him.[citation needed] Shortly after Muhammad’s death the Quran was compiled into a single book by order of the firstCaliph Abu Bakr and at the suggestion of his future successor Umar. Hafsa, Muhammad’s widow and Umar’s daughter, was entrusted with that Quranic text after the second Caliph Umar died.[10] When the third Caliph Uthman began noticing slight differences in Arabic dialect, he sought Hafsa’s permission to use her text to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect now known as Fus’ha (Modern Standard Arabic). Before returning the text to Hafsa, Uthman made several thousand copies of Abu Bakr’s redaction and, to standardize the text, invalidated all other versions of the Quran. This process of formalization is known as the “Uthmanic recension”.[11] The present form of the Quran text is accepted by most scholars as the original version compiled by Abu Bakr.[11][12] Muslims regard the Quran as the main miracle of Muhammad, the proof of his prophethood[13]and the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with the messages revealed toAdam, regarded in Islam as the first prophet,[14] and continued with the Suhuf Ibrahim (Scrolls of Abraham),[15] the Tawrat (Torah or Pentateuch) of Moses,[16][17] the Zabur (Tehillim or Book of Psalms) of David,[18][19] and the Injil (Gospel) of Jesus.[20][21][22] The Quran assumes familiarity with major narratives recounted in Jewish and Christian scriptures, summarizing some, dwelling at length on others and in some cases presenting alternative accounts and interpretations of events.[23][24][25] The Quran describes itself as a book of guidance, sometimes offering detailed accounts of specific historical events, and often emphasizing the moral significance of an event over its narrative sequence. Abdul Rahman Ibn Abdul Aziz as-Sudais (Arabic: عبد الرحمن السديس (ʻAbd ar-Rahman ibn ʻAbd al-Aziz as-Sudais), born Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1960)[1] is the imam of the Grand mosque inMecca, Saudi Arabia, and the “Islamic Personality Of the Year” 2005. In some of his sermons, al-Sudais has vilified non-Muslims and has called for the annihilation of Jews. Abu Ibrahim Sa’ud ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ash-Shuraim An-Najdi Ph.d is one of theImams of the Grand Mosque (Masjid al-Haram) in Makkah. His family is from the Haraqees of the Banu Zayd tribe of Saudi Arabia. He studied elementary at Areen schools, then the middle school at the Modern schools then high school at Al Yarmouk North. During last years of his secondary school he became a hafiz of the Quran. He graduated from his high school in 1983, then went to college of `Usool ud Din` at Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, in the “Aqeedah and Modern Madhahib” division, from where he graduated in 1988. Then he went on in 1989 to the “Ma’had Al-‘aali Lilqadhah” institute and received a Masters degree in 1992. Shuraim was employed as a teacher in “Ma’had Al-‘aali Lilqadhah” in 1989. In 1991, he was made Imam and Khateeb of Masjid al-Haram by the order of Custodian of the Two Holy Harams, King Fahad bin AbdulAzeez Al-Saud.